Jeff Healy, I got to talk to him a couple of times. He also had a jazz group, and hosted a number of jazz shows, the best was on www.jazz.fm a Toronto based jazz fm station.

He died, I forget what illness got him but he was blind and taught himself to play guitar like you see in this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJh3KaIKDAw&feature=related

When he way dying they had booked a gig at our city's new year's celebration outdoors in a park. It was -1C or 31F, raining and freezing, puddles everywhere as the temp dropped towards midnight. I wasn't stupid enough to go to the park but it was on local cable. And there he was, just weeks before he died, sick, but playing his heart out in the park. After he died I told my wife, 'that's total devotion to your craft.' He played small smoky clubs, and his recording 'Angel Eyes', was his signature song.

I don't play the guitar but he'd be my vote, learning to play like that and being blind, it's inspirational.

John Conley
Musica est vita